Newsletter November 2023

Dear Friend,

The clocks have changed, the nights are drawing in and the trees are riotous shades of yellows, oranges and reds. Autumn is most definitely making itself known.  With the coming of autumn there comes a shift. You can feel it, see it and sense it, perhaps quietly from inside yourself, but certainly externally in our environment, the light, the leaves, the temperature, the eruptions of fungi. It’s a time where the slowing down can begin. The time of autumn offers us the chance to stop, to step into this shift and to reassess. What shifts might I like to make? It’s also a time to reap the gifts of seeds sown earlier in the year and to consider how we receive these gifts.

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It was my pleasure this month to host a weekend retreat specifically designed for gay and queer men.  It's always such an honour to hold space for people undertaking this work, this time especially for a community so dear to my heart.  More retreat details for 2024 will follow soon and in the meantime my one-to-one psychedelic programmes continue.   On a personal level I have stepped into the unknown to explore the concept of syncopation and its role in imagining emerging futures, by following Bayo Akomolafe's course We Will Dance with Mountains.

syncopation
"a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm"
  "a placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur"

And certainly a personal highlight was the opportunity to join an evening even with Eckhart Tolle.  Eckhart Tolle has been an important spiritual teacher of mine over the years. His message is so simple and one that resonates so strongly with my personal practice and the values I bring to my work.  What an honour to see him live and be filled with his wisdom.

“The awakening of human consciousness is no longer a luxury—it is a necessity for the survival of our species. It is up to each of us as individuals to embody the state of aware presence and thus rise above the egoic mind and its dysfunction.

When a sufficient number of humans undergo this transformation, this will bring healing and sanity to our planet.”